(With the exceptions of Pinball and Rayman you might notice a distinct pattern in the games I like)
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link
picked up gta 5 again just to round off the epsilon missions. i was convinced there would be a big heist at the end of all of it, because ripping off the scientologists seemed to make sense and how else would i ever get the cash to buy the golf course etc. so the only one getting ripped off was me :( officially done with this game.
also just finished xcom enemy unknown which i loved to bits. besides it was just long enough to keep my interest through the whole thing.
not really sure what to go with next. ps+ gave me lots of options. i'll probably get going on tomb raider, as soon as i stop struggling to like pes2014.
― sonderangerbot, Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
dayZ and nothing but dayZ. the slow small little updates that come out every couple of weeks just make it that little bit more appealing every day. i try not to think that's there's no real goal or 'end' to it.
― NI, Thursday, 10 April 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
Dude, FRACT OSC is out. It's fun, but giving me a lot of flashbacks to Myst, due to heavy puzzles with occasional symbolic language hints. You're exploring this long abandoned machine world and you restoring operation to a giant synthesizer that you wander around in.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Thursday, 24 April 2014 06:32 (nine years ago) link
SMT4, the soundtrack for this game is so good, running around a post-apocalyptic Tokyo to synthy krautrock <3 http://youtu.be/SG_gB4kb2oA
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 24 April 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Oh, FRACT sounds great, might have to grab that.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 April 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
The only thing I'm playing at the moment is Letter Quest on my ipod. It's quite good but nothing mindblowing.
portal 2 (3rd time), ni no kuni, assassins creed 4, dork souls
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
FTL and could be on this for a while now that I feel like I finally understand how to play it
― anonanon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
im obsessed
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
so many ships still to unlock and haven't even touched advanced mode...
― anonanon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
I've been playing Kingdom Of Amalur, a game that apparently lost the taxpayers of Rhode Island $75m, recently. I kind of hate myself as it's another massive Skyrim-style time sink, but it's quite good fun.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
what IS advanced mode
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
i havent even begun boarding as a tactic yet
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
sorry "advanced edition"
As a reminder, FTL: Advanced Edition is a free content expansion for FTL. All current (and future) customers will receive this update regardless of where they purchased it. Prior to release, we will post detailed instructions on how to get the update from whatever digital vendor you originally purchased FTL.
http://www.ftlgame.com/?page_id=106
New systems (clone bay??), new race, new ships, just lots more stuff, and it was released as a free sort of patch. It's a toggle option when you start a game, you can choose standard or advanced.
― anonanon, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
I've been playing Kingdom Of Amalur, a game that apparently lost the taxpayers of Rhode Island $75m― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:45 PM
ah yes the curt schilling rpg
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah i'm playing dragon's dogma. i've given up on it twice before so i'm determined to finish it this time. the controls are lacking but it has some of the best gfx i've seen in an rpg. makes dark souls 2 look like shit by comparison anyway.
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.destructoid.com//ul/266639-curt-shilling.jpg
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
dragon's dogma was good fun, at its best early before everything becomes too easy, so i encourage you to not progress the story at all until you have been everywhere. one of the best and most unique things it has are the giant wandering monsters that really felt like epic fights, at least until my gang quickly got OP'd. helps if you resist the temptation of the broken pawns that are available early.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 24 April 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
infinity wars + starbound
― Mordy , Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
helps if you resist the temptation of the broken pawns that are available early.― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:29 PM
what are the broken pawns. i've just been using the free low level ones and trading them in every so often. groups of bandits on the roads are still kicking my butt
― am0n, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:42 (nine years ago) link
i got one real early with an ordinary woman's name, Karen i am fairly sure, and her owner had limited her level but she had maxed-out, late game rare gear and was a total powerhouse
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
whatever the fighter class is. i got another midway thru with a more forgettable fantasyish name, also a female fighter.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 25 April 2014 00:02 (nine years ago) link
Dammit, Fract really _is_ like myst. I can't find the symbolic to detangle the tune I'm supposed to play to solve the final puzzle in one of the areas.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Friday, 25 April 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
Final Fantasy - NESAssassin's Creed IV - PCPac-Man Championship Edition DX - PCCastlevania: Rond of Blood - T16Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - PSXMetal Gear Solid - PSXMetal Gear Rising Revengeance - PCMetal Gear Solid 2 - PC
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
you livin' the life, Adam, respect
― Nhex, Saturday, 26 April 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
finished saints row 4tried diablo 3 again - meh so spammymaybe back to metro 2033
― bnw, Monday, 5 May 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
"Finished" Portal and Fez, loved both. Seems like there's still aftergame stuff for me to do, which is cool.
I'm a good way into the first God of War, and I can't be sure but I think I might kinda hate it. The brutal waves of super tough enemies are awesome, and some of the puzzles are pretty good, but creating Indiana Jones-esque deathtraps with a shitty camera and sketchy controls was the fucking worst idea ever. I've wasted so much of my playtime on failing to kill everything onscreen within a set time before falling to my death or being crushed or sliced up by shit that I can barely see in front of me that it's kinda become a chore for me to continue. I might just be hating the PS2-ness of it, though.
I've been surprisingly digging a lot of arcade-y stuff that I've gotten cheap from PSN recently. Super Stardust and Wipeout took me a little while to get used to but they're amazing once I'm in the zone. Just got Retro/Grade, which I haven't played much but which has an awesome conceit (basically a rhythm game disguised as a shooter that runs in reverse). The Space Invaders update also seems like good value.
This weekend, I hit 50% completion and the 100 hour mark near-simultaneously on Just Cause 2. Clearing a few areas in the game has become such a reliably perfect way to decompress at the end of the day.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Monday, 5 May 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
kotor + bg2
― Mordy, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
getting myself psyched + ready for pillars of eternity i guess
xps I played GoW 1 for the first time... a year ago? Maybe two? Felt some of the same frustrations as you, but I'm still planning to truck on through to the others at some point. I can see how it all would've been far more impressive back in 2006, but some of those levels and dungeons are awfully designed.
What build you going for in KOTOR, Mordy?
― Nhex, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
i guess soldier guardian. tbh i'm kinda more interested in my bg2 half-elf cleric/ranger build (so OP apparently it's ppl's fave for soloing the game). (thought about playing a wild mage too.)
― Mordy, Monday, 5 May 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Streets of Rage 3Bare Knuckle III
So BKIII is the Japanese version of SOR3 and it is WAY easier. This does not mean it is easy though, it only means it is possible to get through stage 1 without using a continue. American version of Streets of Rage 3 is one of the more difficult games I've ever played.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VWsJPJ19DA
That level with the bulldozer is all-time unfair.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
all that and he's beat by a girder
― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 May 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
i love the energy meter for 'wall'.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
i guess i only played Streets of Rage 1 & 2.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
man why doesn't axel just jump over the damn walls
sor3 is weird. it seems like it admits to tactics then it doesn't really.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
I think after you get past the stage where you are fighting kangaroos and evil dominatrix clowns they just figured they could get away w that.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
Played 2-player Hyperstone Heist for the Genesis last night. Got to Super Shredder and then we died and we were out of continues! The music in that game is incredible. Orchestrated speed metal.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 15 May 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
i'm still playing bg2.
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
eu4 always with the eu4. genovese colonial empire.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
wish i could get into eu. each time i load it up there are like 300 tutorials
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
if it helps you still won't know what the fuck is going on if you sit thru the tutorials
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
Sadly not as into Mirror's Edge as I'd hoped (hinges way too much on barely-disguised quick time events, which fuck that). Surprisingly way more into the first Metal Gear Solid than I expected (tough but mostly fair, cutscenes and dialogue that are reasonably well-written and not totally perfunctory, generous with the game saving, and the controls and camera, while occasionally obnoxious, are better than those on a lot of the PS2 games I've played). I still haven't been able to get past the first boss yet, though, so we'll see how long my admiration lasts.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
is there some kind of amazing online tutorial that will teach me how to play?
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 May 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
there is a lot of user and wiki content so possibly but i'm not aware of anything myself. i think you just need to start playing it with the expectation that you won't know what you're doing for a long time. start with france: raise a big army and start some beef. you can go a long way with them without having to worry about some of the more arcane stuff for a while and you will pick up a good foundation in manpower/supply, tech advancement, diplomacy, religion. you can dip your toe into trade and colonies if you want but you'll still be able to do plenty without. and you'll have the immediate objective of unifying france to get your teeth into, which definitely helps the transition into the sandbox. you'll always have something to do with them and that is certainly not always the case elsewhere.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
have any of you played crusader kings 2 and can you take the same approach there? tried to get into it but get caught up on figuring out how levies work and what a demesne is and somehow the game had me entering into an affair with my own wife
― anonanon, Thursday, 15 May 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
ftl
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 16 May 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Castlevania: Aria of SorrowCastlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Aria of Sorrow is incredible. Are the GBA Metroids this good?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 May 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Alright already I'll buy the game! Sheesh guys!
― H.P, Saturday, 16 March 2024 11:24 (one week ago) link
feels like it would go crazy on ipad
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:30 (one week ago) link
iOS version is coming, I’ve read
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:49 (one week ago) link
i should not have bought this game
― H.P, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:52 (one week ago) link
it's 1am, i have to be at work in 6hrs, and I have an exam I have an exam I need to cram for on next weekend
― H.P, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:53 (one week ago) link
Accountability: I will not touch this game until after this exam next Saturday. Balatro will steal my life if I'm not careful
― H.P, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link
lol whenever a new roguelike, online multiplayer or deck builder shows up I breathe a sigh of relief that it will not be added to my backlog.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 March 2024 15:13 (one week ago) link
it has also destroyed my life over the last few week. my partner calls it "the solitaire game"
― z_tbd, Saturday, 16 March 2024 15:45 (one week ago) link
i think i'll be done with it...once i complete a run with all of the decks
― z_tbd, Saturday, 16 March 2024 15:46 (one week ago) link
I've been really enjoying Tametsi - I've seen a few reviews describe it a cross between Minesweeper and Hexcells (High praise! Justified praise!) and well it's not like there was no Minesweeper in Hexcellls...
The main thing I think they mean by this is that it won't penalise you for marking a spot as mined, only for attempting to clear one. There's a number of different boards with different tile pattern or rules ("neighbours must share an edge" always takes a bit of getting used to) but the main thing I miss when going back to Hexcells is the ability to draw on the screen, a real game changer.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 16 March 2024 16:48 (one week ago) link
The bad news is, I didn't keep to my word.
The good news is, I just hit a 1mil chips in a single hand. Got a vampire joker all the way up to 7x multiplier by the end and had a rare "duplicate the joker to the right" card next to it, netting me a cool 49* my already existing multiplier at the end of my turn. Silly numbers make h.p. smile
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:43 (one week ago) link
I don’t think I can do Balatro. The dev said their inspiration was Luck be a Landlord and that game almost destroyed my life with its addictiveness.
― Jeff, Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:00 (one week ago) link
It's even worse than landlord imo. Be careful
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:12 (one week ago) link
Got a vampire joker all the way up to 7x multiplier by the end and had a rare "duplicate the joker to the right" card next to it, netting me a cool 49*
the duplicate the joker to the right card is awesome, and also there's a "allow more than one of the same joker in a deck" card (i haven't used it yet), but theoretically you could use that with your above setup to get..4 trillion points
― z_tbd, Sunday, 17 March 2024 15:02 (one week ago) link
the beginning of this highlight reel shows off a great balatro deck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hci9GtuTt3w
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 17 March 2024 17:19 (one week ago) link
Jeff has introduced “Luck be a Landlord” to me via that post and oops the afternoon is over
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:22 (one week ago) link
I'm going to march right over there, grab you by the collar, and say I mentioned it twice in this thread before Jeff and demand credit for your new found addiction
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:52 (one week ago) link
You can have the credit! Mh is a nice lad, I don’t want to be the person to ruin his life.
― Jeff, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:58 (one week ago) link
I on the other hand, am not a nice person, so it works out perfectly
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 23:06 (one week ago) link
God I want to play landlord again now. Going to go on a bender after this exam. Drinking in bed and deck building all sunday: the dream
― H.P, Sunday, 17 March 2024 23:07 (one week ago) link
you guys can all take credit for ruining my life
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 March 2024 14:48 (one week ago) link
the Balatro tune has been driving me crazy the last couple of days. the high lead synth especially reminded me of another game but every time I tried to place it, it would slither away beyond my reach. infuriating! anyway I finally figured out it was this track from the original Pikmin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqjKACLsZhQ
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 18 March 2024 15:03 (one week ago) link
I'm qualifying these addictive puzzlers as "hot stove" games. You accidentally touched that hot stove once as a kid, and now you're just thinking... hmm, I bet I could touch the stove a little without burning myself
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 18 March 2024 15:09 (one week ago) link
one thing im not clear about on balatro - do you need to unlock items (e.g. jokers) before they are able to spawn in game? or does unlocking them maybe just increase their spawn rate?
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 12:34 (one week ago) link
I think you start with a pool of about 100 jokers that can spawn, unlocking the rest of them adds them to that pool. who knows about spawn rates tho.just figured out you can change the order of jokers during hands, so if one of them is context dependent (e.g. copy joker on the right) you can move it around tactically.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 13:07 (one week ago) link
yeah you generally want to make sure your x-mult jokers are to the right of +-mult and chip jokers.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:31 (one week ago) link
I had just finished filing you under "good poster" and then I had to read your last sentenceTo each their own. I'm loving Alan wake 2 haven completely forgotten the 1st which I played on release and never touching control. I think with that added context you'll find it a real treat. It's an absolutely stunning game too, especially if you have a decent PC to make the most of all the path tracing bells and whistles.― H.P, Monday, February 12, 2024 2:59 PM (one month ago)
To each their own. I'm loving Alan wake 2 haven completely forgotten the 1st which I played on release and never touching control. I think with that added context you'll find it a real treat. It's an absolutely stunning game too, especially if you have a decent PC to make the most of all the path tracing bells and whistles.
― H.P, Monday, February 12, 2024 2:59 PM (one month ago)
Ha! Yeah - wrt to DS1 here's what I wrote to a hardcore Soulsborne friend of mine: "I also am giving Dark Souls 1 a try and am disappointed by it. The atmospherics are massively lacking, even for an older remastered game, and the extra steps necessary to even have a baseline of functionality compared with Elden Ring (buying the infinite item box to hold stuff, humanity after dying) is ... very annoying."
I also got it for the Switch which only plays it at 30fps. I got to Undead Burg, lost my humanity, realized what was necessary to have the baseline of ability I took for granted in ER (and what it would take to get it) and kinda gave up playing. Also the lack of music for much of the game so far really turned me off too. Is DS3 more immersive and atmospheric? Do you at least keep all things save souls when you die in it? Maybe I should start there instead of DS1. Elden Ring also punched me in the face and I had to revisit it again to truly get into it, but at least the game loop was predictable and world incredibly immersive and beguiling.
I'm also playing Alan Wake 2 now and it's incredible! Playing AW1 and Control deeply enrich the world and gaming experience. It's fine to play without it, but there's so many connections throughout that really bring some Lynchian level intrigue to the experience. Also how about that full on 20+ minute film near the end of the game? JFC the effort and vision put into this is insane. How many games use the same actors for the voice and face models so they can add filmed bits mixed in with the game?! Becoming of huge fan of Remedy, and I hear they're working on Control 2. Sign me up.
― octobeard, Friday, 22 March 2024 01:14 (six days ago) link
My friends insisted I join them on Helldivers 2, so much so that one of them kindly just bought me the game. So I had my first go this evening. It's really fun! I'm still working out where to go and how to play, but it's definitely good craic
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 22 March 2024 01:22 (six days ago) link
Hey octobeard, I'd say keep at Dark Souls if you can bear. No it's not Elden Ring, but nothing is. I found it very disconcerting at first (you can't warp between bonfires?!) But it all makes sense after a while.
You don't need humanity really, not unless you're desperate to play PVP. I played the whole game pretty much hollowed.
Not sure what you mean about the infinite item box though? I don't think I saw that.
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 22 March 2024 01:26 (six days ago) link
HD2 is big right now, my coop buddy has even abandoned me to go play with his diver owning friends lately.
Meanwhile I'm still rocking minecraft and farming sim 17, never say die.
― Ste, Friday, 22 March 2024 18:30 (six days ago) link
black deck is kicking my be hind
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 23 March 2024 17:35 (five days ago) link
black stake*
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 23 March 2024 17:55 (five days ago) link
Venba free update includes a cookbook now!
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:26 (five days ago) link
Some dude in Undead Burg sells one for like 20000 souls or some shit. Did not want to farm for it. It's an item that allows you to carry infinite stuff, basically the default in Elden Ring. Did you not ever use it?
― octobeard, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:57 (five days ago) link
You don't need it at all, there's no limit to your normal inventory. It's just for organization, like if you don't want a ton of unnecessary stuff in your regular inventory list. And I think it's only like 1k souls but I wouldn't worry about it.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:14 (five days ago) link
The repair box is useful though!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:15 (five days ago) link
my coworkers were trying to recruit me to the helldivers 2 family, but I fear one of them has already maxed out all their stats
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:32 (two days ago) link
my brother and i *loved* the original helldivers for couch play. this looks like its too sophisticated for us (fps, fancy graphics, no top down view where you can go “did you pick up the briefcase” “no i thought you had”
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:36 (two days ago) link
HD2 is 3rd person.
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:37 (two days ago) link
octobeard, I don't think I even knew it existed. In Demon's Souls there's a limit to how much you can carry, which is a pain, but in Dark Souls the only reason you'd want to get rid of stuff is if you've got, say, 6 crappy swords you don't want, in which you can drop them or recycle them via an NPC who shows up
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:44 (two days ago) link
Note to self: don't play Balatro before bed. (I reached the last boss blind in I think my 4th run but my deck relied heavily on Joker synergies which of course the boss does not care about).
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:43 (three hours ago) link
Also buying that and another deck builder (Cobalt Core) when I'm still up to my eyes in BG3 campaigns is probably a bad idea.
― Astarion Is Born (Leee), Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:48 (three hours ago) link